The Project

The project aims to explore employers’ welfare preferences and their political action, including interactions with trade unions and governments

Although necessary for business to be effective in fostering its policy agenda, collective action among companies cannot be taken for granted; also, there is not much academic writing on the...

The countries studied in the project are: Italy, Slovak Republic, Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, as representatives of the larger industrial relations cluster to which they belong

The project is built around two different dependent variables (the “explanandum”) and three sets of independent variables (the “explanans”)

We consider a set of hypotheses to be tested

A mix-method approach composed by a survey to medium-large enterprises, qualitative interviews, and an analysis of the documents produced by employers' associations